Seoul's full cafes, Apple store lines show mass testing success
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#3https://archive.md/0Kygf
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Re: Seoul's full cafes, Apple store lines show mass testing success
#4This worries me. South Korea's mass testing alone was not enough to contain the coronavirus outbreak; they relied on social distancing measures too: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-southk...
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#5This worries me. South Korea's mass testing alone was not enough to contain the coronavirus outbreak; they relied on social distancing measures too: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-southk...
Yes, but once the outbreak is at a low enough level, and you have sufficient test bandwidth, you can manage it via testing and tracing. Everyone who gets sick, with anything, gets tested (in some variants of the plan every everywhere gets tested every N days). If you find a positive, quarantine them and test everyone they came in contact with. Repeat.
This reduces the rate of spread by catching community transmission before the end of its cycle. And it's worked with other outbreaks in the past. But it depends on having a very large available pool of rapid testing, so you can't do it when you have thousands of cases per day. But a few dozen... probably. It definitely seems to be working in Korea.
But again, it only works once the outbreak is well contained. Stay home.
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#63 new cases of coronavirus in Korea today
1 person has died this year from coronavirus in Seoul
Looks to be near the end of the outbreak for Korea
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#7South Korea demonstrated from the beginning on how to deal with this (despite their slow start - which still is super quick compared to most western countries).
But its completely wrong to think they passed it. They also have massive impediments at the moment. Back to normal? Far from it.
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#83 new cases of coronavirus in Korea today 1 person has died this year from coronavirus in Seoul Looks to be near the end of the outbreak for Korea
The US will hit 40,000 deaths today.
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#9On the other hand, they have something like 65 re-infected people. Could it be that they have a different/new strain ?
Edit I don't see why the downvotes. It is easily fact-checkable. Those 65 persons were hospitalized for their symptoms, considered treated and released and about 2 weeks later showed symptoms again.